Somewhere between releasing 2004's You Fail Me and No Heroes in 2006, I started seeing Kurt Ballou getting name-checked more as a producer at his Salem-based GodCity studios than as the guitarist of one of Massachusetts's mightiest exports, Converge. If you take a quick look at what he's recorded between even just 2008 and now, it makes sense: The shortlist includes Disfear's Live The Storm, Genghis Tron's Board Up the House, Torche's Meanderthal, Misery Index's Traitors, Buried Inside's Spoils ...
Stereogum — Somewhere between releasing 2004's You Fail Me and No Heroes in 2006, I started seeing Kurt Ballou getting name-checked more as a producer at his Salem-based GodCity stud... more info